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I get my water bill online. This year it looks like they're including some handy-dandy tips to the bill for how to not waste water. I'm wondering if anyone here already uses tip number one and how that's working out for you......

Water Saving Tips

• Drop tissues in the trash instead of flushing them and save water every time.
  Use a WaterSense labeled showerhead. They're inexpensive and easy to install.

Uhh you’re not supposed to flush tissue they are not designed to dissolve

The last time I bought the wood pulp product intended to wipe one's crappy butt, I noticed it was identified on the package in a very large type font "Bath Tissue" I had the wonderful thought experiment of pondering the result of using the stuff after taking a bath.

I do remember the California slogan in an earlier water crisis: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

snailgate.

Crackpot wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:06 pm

Uhh you’re not supposed to flush tissue they are not designed to dissolve

I guess it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is....

Bathroom tissue....

I'm thinking they mean facial tissues, or they would have said bathroom tissue or toilet paper.

That being said, when I was using a lot of pads after prostate surgery for urine leakage, I couldn't let them sit in the trash for more than a couple of days before the smell got to me and I had send them down the garbage chute. I was using an inordinate number of trash bags. So I imagine the same (or worse) would happen to a collection of used toilet tissue.

I remember the toilet paper 'shortage' during Covid, and people were advised to use Kleenex or equivalent. I wanted to go into the streets and yell Noooooooo! at the top of my lungs. As Crackpot clearly knows, and most people do not, they are entirely different products. We've all seen what happens to a Kleenex left in a pocket that goes through a washing machine - it comes out dry and reusable. Pretty much the same thing - i.e., nothing - happens to it in a sewage system and there was a real threat that they might block some systems.

Yeah, I'm sure they weren't talking about TP, but they probably should have been more specific. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some budget-minded maga-people in my city right now setting aside used TP receptacles in their bathrooms.

I don't think any MAGA people refer to TP as "tissue". They would see it as too woke.

I do remember the punch line of an old joke about two guys in adjoining stalls in a bathroom, seeing only empty cardboard tubes.. The punch line is: Do you have change for a twenty?

snailgate

Lots of folks flush the wet wipes too which aren’t really flushable, even the ones which say they are. This leads to the creation of massive sewer monsters that routinely wreak havoc in the public sewage system.



fatbergs

Burning Petard wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:34 pm

I do remember the California slogan in an earlier water crisis: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

snailgate.

I'd heard that was a reference to former governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.

-"BB"-

Bicycle Bill wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 09, 2026 2:57 am

Burning Petard wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:34 pm

I do remember the California slogan in an earlier water crisis: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

I'd heard that was a reference to former governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.

I remember the slogan well, but I never heard it connected to Governor Brown.

Maybe I just wasn't paying attention....